UK Sport is the nation's high-performance sports agency, responsible for investing National Lottery and government funds in and providing support to our top medal hopes in Olympic and Paralympic sport.

Every athlete who has received Lottery funding will have a story to tell of the difference that it has made to their Olympic or Paralympic dream. Medals are now won and lost by the smallest possible margins - the power of 's Lottery investment is in its ability to seek out those fractions of a second, wherever they exist, and help British athletes emerge on the winning side.